I am using v 5.9.5 and my Except does not properly work with 'inline' option with the preceding text.

In my case, the Except is a date (Confluence style) which is preceded by text "Status Date:" and both are in a Table's cell. I have tried both Except inline and new line options to no evail. The Excerpt date always displays on the second line..

As a work around (hack), I created a 2 column table within the table cell where I wish to display both text and date. The first column contains the text, and the second column contains the Except Confluence date with Inline set. This works, but the table's outline lines are visible and thus does not look good.

hmm, I was able to reproduce the case using Firefox as well. 5.8 seem to be fixed, as far as I saw so far. Though, I will have to run a scripted update on those pages which hold this macro and have been edited using the buggy versions (e.g. 5.4), as the editor had added an extra </p> which I will remove when we upgrade to 5.8. I also noticed that there should be a space added to the page text to avoid two words to show up as one.
Example:
in Editor: some text {exerpt:INLINE}some more text{excerpt}
in view mode: some textsome more text
Resolution: add a space in front of "some" . (the space behind "text" does NOT help! It's not considered in View mode )
I face I have to do this update to all pages which hold the excerpt macro with INLINE option.
(Of course the modification of the page source is much more tricky than this high-level explanation, as we are talking about Confluence 5, not 3)

One remark to the Tester: the bug description describes the problem as problem with IE8 and without problems for Firefox and Chrome. So the verification in Chrome and Firefox is not correct to prove the solution. This should be considered for testing similar issues.
Nevertheless the problem is solved for the newer versions of Confluence and IE.

Dear hans-peter.geier / krzysztof.zelechowski / michael.ammann,

Thanks for your information. Our developer verified the feature again with Confluence 5.8.4 on Chrome and Firefox
Both cases inline and newline work as expected

Thanks,
Minh Tran
Confluence BugMaster
Atlassian

I testet it with IE10 and Confluence 5.8.4. It seems to be inline now.

I confirm that the inclusion is in-line in 5.7.4.

I am just validating this issue on Confluence 5.7.3.
It appears that this issue does not exist in 5.7.3 anymore. Can someone validate whether this is true?

Though I found out that a minor issue still remains. The editor removes any spaces in front of the macro, which may end up in concatenating two words into one.

Example: this is the editor content:
These are some words in front of {the excerpt macro}

Result:
These are some words in front ofthe excerpt macro
(note the missing space between "of" and "the" )

Any spaces after the word "of" and <ac:structured-macro ... are being removed by the editor, even when I do not change anything myself.
It helps to include the space inside of the macro - but who would know this?

Hi Everyone

Thank you for being patient with us on this issue. Unfortunately this is still on our backlog and there are no immediate plans to fix this issue. We have a number of other problems that we need to resolve before tackling this particular issue. As soon as we have any further updates I'll add the details to this ticket.

Regards
Steve Haffenden
Confluence bugmaster

Confluence 5.4.4 has same issue. I also wanna confirm that the issue also exists when using Firefox.

Observation:
When editing an existing page which has this macro and which WAS rendered fine (because the page was created in Confluence 3.5), the editor adds <\p> and <p> at the moment when the page is loaded into the editor, and so at this moment damages the page.
In this way, existing correct pages are being damaged even if the author changes something else on the page (or even nothing)!

Confluence 5.4.3 here, broken in Firefox too.